Issue Forty
June 2013
From the Editor
Much good fiction is about the journey, the quest—where the characters often learn more from the process itself than they do once they get where they were going in the first place. SmokeLong Quarterly has itself had a significant journey. With this issue, the 40th issue, SmokeLong has been around for 10 years. Ten years!… Continue reading Issue Forty
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
Deadline November 15th!
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.
The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.
Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.